The society says this may be the Government's only chance to direct the future of the New Zealand broadband market to such a degree.

Acting president David Farrar said in a statement: "This is one of the few opportunities we have to directly improve the wholesale services that will help New Zealand ISPs towards delivering a world class DSL broadband service.”

The Commission's draft determination calls for Telecom to deliver a wider range of speed plans to competitors, in this instance TelstraClear above and beyond the 256kbit/s download speed plan Telecom originally launched on the UBS service.

The Commission has made it clear that 256kbit/s is the minimum download speed and that others should also be offered. Telecom has recently announced 1Mbit/s and 2Mbit/s plans, but TelstraClear has continued to push for a determination on this issue, as well as several other related problems it says it has with Telecom's UBS service.

InternetNZ has put together a submission on the draft determination and has included a technical report that looks into issues which have plagued the UBS service, like latency, interleaving and data correction.

The Commission will hold a conference to hear from interested parties in July and a final determination is expected later in the year.

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